The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-04-02
Household Hints.
PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS FOR DOING
MANY KINDS OF THINGS.
Good Housekeeping.

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in one way, while the foul air makes its
exit the other thus you let in friend
and expel an enemy.
Lace may be washed by winding it
around bottles or sewing it on muslin and
boiling it in soft water with white CASTLE
soap. 1t should be rinsed in soft water
after removing it from the suds.
Nothing is better for sore throat than
gargle of salt and water. 1t may be
used as often as desired, and if a little is
swallowed each time it is used it will
cleanse the throat and allay the irritation.
A damp cloth enveloping the broom
head will be found desirable in removing
the dust from carpet in room where
there may be many small articles to catch
the dirt raised by an ordinary sweeping.
Preserving jars should be stood on
their heads for at least an hour after seal
ing, when the liquor will escape if the
jar contains air. Cranberry jelly mixed
with cold water makes refreshing drink
for the sick.
Salt, in doses of one to four teaspoon
fuls in half pint to pint of tepid wa
ter, is an emetic always on hand. This is
also an antidote to be used after poison
| ing from nitrate of silver while waiting
| for the doctor to come.
Silver should be washed with ChamoiS
skin, saturated with silver soap, each
time after use, thus avoiding general
cleaning. Windows should never be
washed while the sun shines upon them,
as it is impossible to polish them without
leaving blue streakS.
To clean kid gloves rub them with
very slightly dampened crumbs of bread.
Or scrape French chalk upon them while
on the hands and wash them in basin
containing diluted spirits of ammonia.
Some gloves can be cleaned with milk,
with rice pulp or with turpentine.
If you are troubled with moths in your
feather-beds boil the feathers in water for
short time; then put them in sacks and
dry them, working them with the hands
all the time. Silk dresses should never
be brushed with a whisk broom, but
should be carefully rubbed with velvet
mitten kept for that purpose only.
| Disease often turks in dirty dishcloth,
a greasy sink, an unclean teakettle and
a poorly-ventilated oven. Flannel
should be washed in hot soapsuds, and
rinsed in hot water containing soap
enough to soften it little.
A carpet-sweeper is invaluble in din
ing room where small children eat, but
should never be used for general sweep
ing.
If the feet are tender or painful after
long walking or standing, great relief
can be had by bathing them in salt and
water. A handful of salt to gallon of
water is the right proportion. Have the
water as hot as can comfortably be borne.
Immerse the feet and throw the water
over the legs as far as knees with the
cool, rub briskly with fresh towel.
This method, if used night and morning,
will cure neuralgia of the feet.
To prevent the juice of pies soaking
into the under crust, beat the white of
an egg and brush the under crust with it.
If the oven is hot when baking, place
small dish of cold water in it. Well
ventilated bedrooms will prevent morn
ing headaches and lassitude. Powdered
rice, sprinked upon lint and applied to
fresh wounds, will stop bleeding. A
tallow candle or piece of tallow wrapped
in tissue paper and laid among furs or
other garments will prevent the ravages
of moths.
| Soda will clean tarnished tin. Vine
gar and salt will clean copper. Butter
is the best polish to put into starch.
Baking soda put on burn will take out
| the heat. A heated knife will cut hot
bread without making it soggy. Oil of
cedar is sure death to vermin which in
fest chambers. Toilet sets and all cham
Der articles should be cleaned in cold
water. White lead will cement broken
crockery, Io-cent bottle lasting for
years. A small paint brush should be
used in cracks and crevices while dusting
room.
A simple way of loosening a rusted
screw is to apply heat to the head of it.
When the burners of lamps become clog
ged with char, boil them in strong soap
suds. BY using soda water as a wash
| you can clean ceilings that have been
smoked by a kerosene lamp. If you
drop SCOT on the carpet cover thickly
with salt, and it may be swept up with
out blackening the carpet. A few oys-
ter shells mixed with the coal used for
furnace or large stove will prevent the
accumulation of clinkers. To clean
brass bird-cages use teaspoonful of salt
and teacupful of vinegar, beat, and
apply with piece of flannel and rub till
dry.
Bent whalebones can be restored and
used again by simply soaking in water
a few hours, then drying them. To re-
store crushed velvet hold it over the
spout of the teakettle and let it steam
well, then comb up the nap. Brooms
dipped for few minutes in toiling suds
once week will last much longer than
they otherwise would. Kid shoes may
be kept soft and free from cracks by
rubbing them once week with a little
pure glycerine or castor oil. A piece
of zinc placed on the Goals of hot stove
will clean out the stove pipe. The va
por produced carries off the SCOT by
chemical decomposition.
To wash silk handkerchiefs, soak them
first in cold salt and water for ten min
utes, or longer, then wash out in the
same water and iron Immediately. Car
pets may be greatly frightened by first
sweeping thoroughly and then going
over them with a clean cloth and clear
salt and water. Use cupful of coarse
salt to large basin of water. Salt in
the whitewash will make it stick better.
Wash the mica of the stove doors with
salt and vinegar. Brass work can be
kept beautifully bright by occasionally
rubbing with salt and vinegar. To clean
willow furniture use salt and water.
Apply it with a nail brush, scrub we'll
and dry thoroughly.
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